February 2009

I’ve been remiss in not talking about this before now but in October, Oracle announced that they had purchased Primavera. Primavera has been around since the early 80s and my firm, HMS has been a technology partner since the mid-90’s. The sale became final late in 2008 and now we’re starting to see some of the effects of the sale. Oracle has explained that Primavera will form one of the major wings of its strategic…

For those of you who were getting more and more irritated with the formatting of the EPM Articles page (like I was), you’ll be happy to hear that I’ve reformatted the page so it is hopefully a bit more readable. There will be more formatting and more content to come over the next couple of weeks. Chris

One of the grand debates in enterprise systems is whether you should be looking for one all-in-one tool or whether it’s better to look for the “best-of-breed” in each type of tool that you need. Can’t you do both? Use the all-in-one when it’s appropriate and the best-of-breed when the functionality outweighs the value of integration?